While I agree with the first part, I dispute the second.
Well, her being trapped in a locker filled with biological waste is unlikely enough that it probably can't happen.
Hey, remember how Taylor has been cheating with scratch tickets and buying/cashing them while underage?
It's not 100% proof, but considering his previous mindset and what Taylor's precog has possibly told her to make her run, I'm happy to take it.
They might not pull her up on it. It's not something most people, even in the PRT, would care about, but that doesn't change the fact that she's currently acting as a criminal by the terms of the contract her father legally signed for her.
Sure it is. She's abandoning the living conditions the PRT has elected her to use/continue using, breaking their rules. Breaking their rules is now a crime for her.
Taylor has repeatedly done her best to hide all evidence of bullying, even after she was sent to the locker. Former friends become estranged over time; her not hanging out with Emma isn't worthy of too much concern.
Okay. So... what would your solution be? I'm pretty sure she can't be registered to carry a firearm yet, and unless you want Danny to keep her under house arrest there's no better solution.
False. Brockton Bay is an exception.Then he goes and ignore all her protests and signs her up for a program designed to put Children in danger in order to facilitate their growth as heroes....
Danny.
^This is the problem. Taylor, here and in canon, has a very black and white, us and them mentality. You're either with her or against her, her friend or her enemy, trusted or never to be trusted under any circumstances. Once she's made up her mind, she doesn't change it easily.
Not 'just' the lack of control, it's giving that control to people she thinks are against her who she actively distrusts.
This is her second biggest problem and tied with the one above. If she can't 'win' right now, that means she's 'lost', so there's no point in trying at all. If you know, with 100% absolute certainty that nothing you can do will win you an argument, why would you bother arguing? And with her pre-cog, she does have that 100% absolute certainty.
The affiliate paperwork has that clause, not the paperwork for joining the Wards. It requires coming to the Ward's/Protectorate's aid if they ask, not to the aid of random bystanders.
I think your quote tags are messed up.
No. That's not how contracts work.
The fact that the option she was considering most involved some partnership with the PRT as an affiliate even if it wasn't as close as being a full ward contradicts that assertion. She certainly doesn't trust them as much but she is not actively viewing them as enemies here. She's actually being pretty mature about that at this point, though that is in no small part due to the PRT's own damage control.
This is straight up true, having a "what will happen" button is conversely having a very negative impact on Taylor's long term planning ability.
Ok. Everything I wrote is how I see things being presented in the fic. I could be wrong, but it's my interpretation of it, so... whatever.
To be fair I don't really think Taylor minds that one too much.
Well, she points out in the text that it's very easy for the PRT to abuse that clause.
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Ah fair enough.
Or she could find a phone book, look up the Dallons, and go to their house. Nothing could go wrong.
Perhaps you've missed that Taylor has had support on most of her outings thus far, like has been pointed out several times?
Well two things. One Taylor has never told him and refuses to try. Sure you can say the word pre-cog all you want but that means Taylor is just avoiding the issue all together. Two other than Vicky her only support is two other teen girls with just as many resources as Taylor. That isn't better.
Actually it means that Danny's too stubborn and tunnel sighted to consider alternate ideas or compromises that may actually work now that he's already reached a decision. (Bad)
I get the feeling that people do care about that, it's more the whole "Hey, let's try to force teenagers with WMD equivalents to do what we want without consulting them or with their explicit refusal." that's the issue.
The problem with the Taylor didn't try so danny doesn't have to is it assumes a relationship of equals, in with case danny can't do the things he did. Danny wants to both have his position as parent but not the responsibility of being the bigger person, I usually don't think parental guidance is a bad thing if the parents are....well good at being parents and superiors in general, sadly danny is shit atvit as he wants to be not responsible for being the adult but wants and exercises the rights that come with being said adult.
